Quote Originally Posted by abhaysk
Well by accidently, your suerly mean user/dba mistake while uninstall?..

you must be kidding if you say oracle does such mess..?
No mistake. Simple uninstall of 10g. I believe the problem was that we never configured the 10g listener... it was still using the 9i listener. So it was confused.... that's my hunch anyway. I was pretty new (< 1 month) here, so there may have been some other configuration that wasn't right.. it was a test system. But I did a standard install/uninstall and then went to change the 9i tnsnames only to discover they had been deleted. I had edited it earlier in the day, so I know it was there. Very bizarre.

I've never tried to reproduce for obvious reasons.

Interestingly, they were already doing the separate oraInventories here before that happened to me, so they must have seen something like that before.

As a note though.. if you're using OEM Grid control, it gets VERY confused figuring out Deployments when you have separate OraInventories. It basically just recognizes the last oraInventory created. So if you're using Grid Control to manage your deployments, I would recommend just one oraInventory.

Thanks!
Jodie